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2017 Pacific Mini Games

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Host city
  
Port Vila

Motto
  
One Ocean, One People

Opening ceremony
  
December 2017

Country
  
Vanuatu

Events
  
14 sports

The 2017 Pacific Mini Games are scheduled to be held in Port Vila, Vanuatu, in December 2017. It will be the tenth edition of the Pacific Mini Games, and the second to be hosted in Vanuatu (after the 1993 games).

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Vanuatu was awarded the right to host the games at a September 2011 meeting of the Pacific Games Council's General Assembly. Nauru and the Northern Mariana Islands were the other countries to bid. The event was originally planned for September 2017, but preparations were delayed by Cyclone Pam.

Sports

Fourteen sports will be hosted:

Nations

  •  Australia
  •  Vanuatu
  •  New Caledonia
  •  Papua New Guinea
  •  Guam
  •  New Zealand
  •  Tonga
  •  Samoa
  •  Norfolk Island
  •  Fiji
  •  Northern Mariana Islands
  •  French Polynesia
  •  Micronesia
  •  Nauru

    • References

    2017 Pacific Mini Games Wikipedia
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